W4A 2011 – Trip Report [#accessibility #a11y #w4a11]

This years W4A was yet again a triumph, especially Bebo White’s ‘Geezer’ – doing William proud for this second Memorial Address!

Now, normally I pick out a few technical papers which I think pretty good, however, departing from convention I decided to summarise each paper, both technical and communication, in as near to 140 characters or two sentences as possible. In this way I hope that anyone interested will be able to quickly understand the gist of the paper and use this understanding to decide if they want to read further.

Development And Trial Of An Educational Tool To Support The Accessibility Evaluation Process. Christopher Bailey; Elaine PearsonWhich web content accessibility checkpoints can be easily and accurately validated by novices?

Application Of Content Adaptation In Web Accessibility For The Blind. Pauli P.Y. LaiAudio Web browsing via a phone with indexes to content linked to an overview. Also see IBM India’s work on the spoken Web.

An Integrative Accessibility Engineering Approach Using A Multidimensional Classification Of Barriers In The Web. Diana Ruth-JanneckCategorising the barriers to Web 2.0 accessibility may enable increased guidance to programmers.

Accessible Icon Graphic Design In Enterprise Applications. Eric Stilan; Amy Chen; Lulit BezuayehuWhat can be conveyed in an icon and how can it be made accessible.

Prediction Of Web Page Accessibility Based On Structural And Textual Features. Sina Bahram; Debadeep Sen; Robert St. AmantMachine learning techniques to understand the accessibility of Web pages, and eventually guide transcoding.

So these are my one line summaries for each of the papers, based on my notes and not solely on the views of the authors, the presentations, or the papers.